October 31, 2022 — Urban Freight Lab researchers Andisheh Ranjbari, Caleb Diehl, Giacomo Dalla Chiara, and Anne Goodchild have published a new paper on “What is the Right Size for a Residential Building Parcel Locker?” in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.
The paper investigates the UFL’s 2020 study of a common-carrier parcel locker installed in a residential building in downtown Seattle provided by Parcel Pending. The study’s objective is to establish a method to find the right size and configuration for a residential building locker that suits the needs of residents and building managers. Through collecting detailed locker usage data, researchers studied and quantified carriers’ patterns and residents’ online shopping and package pickup behaviors, modeled the locker delivery and pickup process, and tested several locker configurations to find the best one to suit the building’s needs.
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